Rural background and clinical rural rotations during medical training: Effect on practice location

CMAJ. Canadian Medical Association Journal

Volumn 160, Issue 8, 1999, Pages 1159-1163

  Easterbrook, Mark ^a   Godwin, Marshall ^b,d   Wilson, Ruth ^b   Hodgetts, Geoffrey ^b   Brown, Glenn ^b   Pong, Raymond ^c   Najgebauer, Edward ^c  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Centre for Family Medicine Ontario   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNITY; FAMILY MEDICINE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POPULATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESIDENCY EDUCATION; ROTATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 0033586745     PISSN: 08203946     EISSN: 14882329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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